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Sun Spots

Sunspots are solar magnetic storms. The spots appear darker because the temperature of the spots
are lowerthan the surrounding photosphere.

They serve as a reservoir for solar flares and coronal mass ejections, which cause Aurorae,
power/communicationoutages, and satellite anomalies.

The Sun's activity waxes and wanes in an 11-year sunspot cycle; Solar Minimum is when the number of sunspotsare lowest.

There seems to be a correlation between Solar Min/Maximum and Earth's weather. The extent to which Ozone,
stratospheric winds, global circulation patterns, and cloud seeding are all affected are still being studied.

Serious eye damage can result from viewing the Sun directly with the naked eye or with any
unfiltered opticaldevice, such as binoculars or a telescope. ** Please be careful out there. **

Sunspots 1700 to 2016 - latest HMI Magnetogram Image
Data Source: WDC-SILSO, Royal Observatory of Belgium, BrusselsYearly mean total sunspot number from 1700
Yearly mean total sunspot number obtained by taking a simple arithmetic
mean of the
daily total sunspot number over all days of each year. (NB: in early years in particular
before 1749, the means are computed on only a fraction of the days in each
year because on many days, no observation is available).

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News - Aug 2015

On August 7th 2015 a IAU press release on sunspot activity, Unmentioned in the press release is that solar activity has altered climate three times in the last
400 years. Each time resulted in global cooling and it’s about to happen again. The three cooler
times are the Maunder, Dalton and a weak unnamed minimum between 1880 and 1915.
The weakest of the three solar-induced cooling trends occurred during the unnamed minimum. It’s the
only one documented in the IPCC’s HadCRUT4 global land-sea temperature database, which only goes back
to 1850. The first two, the Maunder and Dalton, were before 1850.
It’s evidence-based speculation at this time, but the current trend in solar activity shown above
indicates another minimum of solar activity, tentatively name the “Eddy Minimum”, is on its way.
The IPCC has already said that lower sunspot activity will slow global warming over the next few
decades, but not reverse it.

News - May 2013

The super-active sunspot responsible for unleashing the three most powerful solar flares of 2013 within a 24-hour stretch this week is slowly rotating toward Earth and will
likely be facing our planet by the weekend, experts say.Active Region 1748, as the sunspot is known, unleashed three monster
solar flares between Sunday and Monday (May 12 to 13). Every one of the solar storms registered as an X-class flare — the most
powerful type — with each successive event stronger than the last, culminating in an X3.2 megablast Monday night.
These solar explosions did not affect Earth, since AR1748 was not facing our planet at the time. But the sunspot is now circling into view, so future flares and any associated
eruptions of super-hot solar plasma — called coronal mass ejections (CMEs) — could potentially target our planet,
scientists say.

News - Nov 2011

One of the largest sunspots in years has appeared on the sun, darkening part of its glowing face.
The massive sunspot, called AR1339, is about 50,000 miles long, and 25,000 miles wide.

News - Jan 2011

UK partial solar eclipse 4th Jan 2011 just after sunrise
Serious eye damage or possibly lead to permanent blindness, can result from viewing the
Sun directly with the naked eye or with any unfiltered optical device, such as binoculars
or a telescope. You must use CE approved safety solar eclipse glasses.Eclipse safety code
It is dangerous to look at the sun at any time, viewing the sun during a partial eclipse
requires special protection or indirect viewing methods Only properly designed and certified
solar filters should be used for direct viewing of the sun's disk.
These must be identified as suitable for direct viewing of the sun, bear the CE mark, and a
statement that it conforms to EC Directive 89/686/EECSource: Department of Health

News - October 2010

An analysis of satellite data challenges the intuitive idea that decreasing solar
activity cools Earth, and vice versa. In fact, solar forcing of Earth's surface climate
seems to work the opposite way around — at least during the current Sun cycle.
Atmospheric physicist at Imperial College London found that the amount of visible
light reaching Earth increased as the Sun's activity declined — warming the Earth's surface.
Their unexpected findings are published in Nature
Some meteorologists believe, for example, that during phases of low solar activity,
'blocking events' — unusual patterns in westerly air currents that can cause cold snaps
and freak weather in Europe — occur more frequently.

News - September 2010

Scientists studying sunspots for the past 2 decades have concluded that the magnetic
field that triggers their formation has been steadily declining. If the current trend
continues, by 2016 the sun's face may become spotless and remain that way for decades—a
phenomenon that in the 17th century coincided with a prolonged period of cooling on Earth.
The last solar minimum should have ended last year, but something peculiar has been happening.
Although solar minimums normally last about 16 months, the current one has stretched over 26
months—the longest in a century. This has happened before, sunspots disappeared
almost entirely between 1645 and 1715 during a period called the Maunder Minimum, which
coincided with decades of lower-than-normal temperatures in Europe nicknamed the Little Ice Age.

News - September 2009

The Sun goes through a regular 11-year cycle of active periods and quiet periods. The active periods
are marked by an increase in sunspots—dark regions of intense magnetic activity on the surface of the Sun.
Sunspot activity rises and falls roughly every 11 years – the last maximum was in 2001, and activity slowly
fell off to zero by 2006 and since then…almost nothing. Scientists had expected sunspot activity to start
increasing by now, but it hasn’t. No one knows why, or when the cycle will pick up again.
Now, “active” and “quiet” are relative terms. The amount of energy released by the Sun in its “active”
phase is only 1/10th of 1% more than that released during its “quiet” phase. In other words, a quiet
Sun is still putting out 99.9% as much energy as an active Sun.
A new study by the National Center for Atmospheric Research and published in the journal Science argues
that the increased solar output warms ozone in the upper atmosphere. This extra energy creates more ozone,
which traps more heat, which creates more ozone, which… you get the idea. It’s a feedback loop.
The end result is stronger winds. These winds reduce clouds over the Pacific Ocean, allowing
it to warm up as well. So you’ve got heat coming down from the sky, and more heat coming up from the
ocean, the end result of which is that the Earth warms more than twice as much as you would expect
from the increased Sun activity alone.
The low number of sunspots over the last couple of years may at least partially explain our unusually cool summers of late.

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